1 | 14/03/2021 – 14:33 (GMT-4)
Young Joglis Peña Suárez said that after watching the movie Plantats, by director Lilo Vilaplana, Harbors the hope that one day justice will be done against those who have committed crimes against humanity in Cuba.
“I just saw the movie ‘Plantados’; it brought my tears,” the Cuban resident in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, confessed on Facebook.
Penya Suárez has been out of Cuba for three years, away from his children and other relatives and watching the feature film, which premiered last Friday at the Miami Film Festival, made him reflect on the communist dictatorship and how many have been victims of the regime restored by Fidel Castro in 1959.
“I feel even more desires for justice and trial against these murderers who stole so much from us and our people. I hope one day they will appear in court and be tried in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity,” he wrote in the letter. social network.
CiberCuba contacted the young Cuban, who is waiting for an answer to his asylum application, and he confessed that although the film outlines some crimes committed by Castroism are many plus the hard moments that remained in the hearts of loved ones and those who suffered.
“Today’s young people need to know the history of Cuba that the dictatorship has tried to hide, because it is the only way to understand where we come from and what we do not want for the future,” he added.
One of the scenes that most impacted Peña Suárez was the moment when the daughters of one of the characters failed to recognize their father. “Not only do they rob us of our children but they also indoctrinate them,” he said.
Undoubtedly, for the young Cuban the physical rapes shown in the feature film “Plantats” were the most difficult to assimilate, as well as the ruthless treatment, not for pleasure says that was reflected at various times.
“I was born in a Christian Baptist home. My family suffered the expropriation of the store of my maternal great-grandfather, who was also home and died insane, my mother’s cousins were also in the concentration camps of the UMAP for being a Christian and my mother refused to study medicine for her faith, “recalled Peña Suárez.
He recalled that his father was imprisoned for six months without knowing the crime of which he was accused when his children were between 3 and 4 years old. “After he was released they didn’t even offer him an apology,” he ruled.
On the future for Cuba and the possibility of rebuilding the country, he considered that it should be on the basis of justice without this meaning an amnesty for those who committed crimes against the Cubans themselves who think differently from officialdom. .
“We are not murderers like them,” he said.
It is not the first opinion issued by young Cubans about Vilaplana’s film. From Madrid, activist Lázaro Mireles went so far as to call him “impressive.”
“You guys aren’t able to imagine the great pain that went into my soul when I saw this movie, the great helplessness that I experienced when I put myself in everyone’s shoes that so many things have happened, in this struggle of so many years, in this so valuable struggle, in this so necessary struggle against the Castro dictatorship. “, said the also coordinator of the group Actions for Democracy.
“Plantats”, written by Lilo Vilaplana, Àngel Santiesteban and Juan Manuel Cao, premiered this Friday in Havana and Miami. thanks to the fact that the film was authorized to be distributed free of charge on the island.
“I think this film will help to open eyes, to raise awareness, to think. I think it’s a lesson for the minions themselves, those who have to be seen in this mirror and refuse to repress citizens who want the freedom for Cuba, “Santiesteban added from Cuba.
From March 26 in the United States cinemas will screen the audiovisual material he narrates the story of a former political prisoner who accidentally recognizes in Miami one of the officers who tortured him in prison.